Charmaine Qiu – Looking Outwards – 10

Taryn Southern is a singer active on YouTube who creates her own contents. I find her most recent album particularly interesting as it was entirely composed and produced with artificial intelligence. In an interview with Taryn, she informed us that she used an AI platform called Amper Music to create the instrumentation of her songs. In her creating process, Taryn would decide factors such as the BPM, rhythm, and key, and the AI would generate possibilities for her. From there, she could select the pieces that she enjoyed, and arrange them along with the lyrics that she wrote herself. She states that the advantage of working with an AI is that it gives her a lot of control over what she desires, as opposed to a human partner who may not understand her intents. However, I personally find her songs generic and lack the emotions that move the audience. There are many things that artificial intelligence can achieve, but I believe that music that truly conveys human sentiments should fully origin from the minds of people.